bible_isaiah

I.  The message and the messenger (1:1-6:13)

Introduction (1:1)
Sinful nation condemned (1:2-31)
Promise of absolute peace (2:1-5)
The vanity of trusting idols (2:6-3:26)
Salvation for a remnant (4:1-6)
The parable of a vineyard (5:1-30)
The call to service (6:1-13)

II.  The kingdom prospects — contemporary and future (7:1-12:6)

Immediate deliverance from Rezin and Pekah (7:1-16)
Pending Assyrian invasion (7:17-8:8)
Promise of complete deliverance (8:9-9:7)
Judgement of Ephraim, Syria, and Assyria (9:8-10:34)
Conditions of peace and blessing (11:1-12:6)

III.  Panorama of nations (13:1-23:18)

Doom of Babylon and its ruler (13:1-14:27)
Philistia’s fall — no hope for recovery (14:28-32)
Moab punished for pride (15:1-16:14)
Fate of syria and Israel (17:1-18:7)
Egypt will acknowledge the Lord of Hosts (19:1-25)
Ashdod and allies defeated by Assyria (20:1-6)
Fall of Babylon (21:1-10)
The distress of Edom (21:11-12)
The fate of Arabia (21:13-17)
Judah’s pending destruction (22:1-14)
Judgment of Shebna the steward (22:15-25)
Tyre jdged and restored (23:1-18)

IV.  Israel in a world setting (24:1-27:13)

The destruction of Jerusalem (24:1-13a)
The righteous remnant and the wicked report
to the Lord of Hosts in Zion (24:13b-23)

Song of praise by the redeemed (25:1-26:6)
Prayer of the remnant in tribulation (26:7-19)
Assurance of deliverance and return to Mount Zion (26:20-27:13)

V.  True and false hopes in Zion (28:1-35:10)

God’s plan prevails (28:1-29:24)
Futility of an alliance with Egypt (30:1-31:9)
Blesings for those who trust in God (32:1-33:24)
Nations judged — Israel restored to Zion (34:1-35:10)

VI.  Jerusalem’s judgment delayed (36:1-39:8)

Miraculous deliverance from Assyria (36:1-37:38)
Hezekiah’s recovery and psalm of praise (38:1-22)
Prediction of Babylon captivity (39:1-8)

VII.  The promise of divine deliverance (40:1-56:8)

Comfort through faith in God (40:1-31)
Israel as God’s chosen servant (41:1-29)
The ideal versus the sinful servant (42:1-25)
Israel restored from Babylonian captivity (43:1-45:25)
Babylon with her idols demoted (46:1-47:15)
God’s appeal to sinful Israel (48:1-50:11)
Israel alerted in hope (51:1-52:12)
Deliverance through a suffering servant (52:13-53:12)
Salvation for Israel and foreigners (54:1-56:8)

VIII.  God’s universal kingdom established (56:9-66:24)

Self-righteous living versus God’s standard (56:9-59:21)
The redeemer brings blessings to Zion (60:1-63:6)
God discerns the genuine (63:7-65:16)
The new heaven and the new earth (65:17-66:24)